Santiago, Chile really wants the games. The games have never been held in the southern hemisphere, South America has an enormous and enthusiastic sports community, and the Chilean government wants to show off their country to the world. The people of Chile are on board and they've got the money to make it happen. They…

The traditional goalpost for syndication has been 100 episodes, which Community didn't quite hit (97 episodes at the end of season five). It's pretty rare for a TV series to be adapted to a film (and thereby guarantee some kind of longer life for the franchise). The X-Files, Sex and the City, MST3K and Star Trek: The…

If Martha really wants kids, but they use a condom every time they have sex, we know that Martha isn't in charge of the "kids" decision. Clark would have to take the condom off for it to be possible. It's one more way Clark avoids certain kinds of intimacy with Martha. As far as Martha can tell, Clark has three…

In Egoyan's earliest films, like Speaking Parts, The Adjuster and Family Viewing, the characters argue with each other and themselves about video tape. Each plot is a slightly altered version of the same question - is there a benefit for the traumatized in dwelling on the past? The past is manifested in the present as…

If you think of these films as sequels and not prequels, it doesn't really make sense to spend too much time creating characterization for Obi Wan and Anakin. We already know who they are because we've seen the original films. If anything, time should be spent on Amidala, since her journey is the only one that takes…

I understand the reviewer's perspective, emphasizing the responsibility that Egoyan has to existing material when the story he's telling has been told so well and so often in the past. If the movie comes off as poorly conceived fan fiction that treats real human suffering like low-stakes melodrama, that's a pretty big…

I saw Mary Timony's new band Ex Hex a few weeks ago, and they were awesome. Closer to Wild Flag than to Helium or Mary Timony's solo stuff. Fun hard rock.

G- You know the Russians invented Method acting, right? And taught it to the Americans who came back to the US and taught it to Brando et al?

Lara Logan's Egyptian Fingerblast - A can of Foster's, but the bartender licks his index finger and sticks it in the beer before he serves it to you.